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Fjord Review #7

Fjord Review #7

Discover insightful conversations with prominent figures in the dance world, essays on ballet history and performances, reviews of leading ballet companies, and stunning dance photography in our latest issue.

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Beyond the Clouds
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

Beyond the Clouds

When the lights for “Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503” come up on four dancers silhouetted by refracted light of a billowing cloud of fog, the scene rivals halftime at the Superbowl.

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Toward Azure Distances
REVIEWS | Elsa Simonetti

Toward Azure Distances

On a bright spring afternoon, as Paris basked in long-awaited sunlight and the city frantically moved in the heat, the Opéra Garnier opened a portal to another world—a realm of eternal forms, ethereal beauty, and blue distances: those trembling horizons where the sea dissolves into sky, and the eye reaches toward the infinite.

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Ballet, In Focus
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Ballet, In Focus

What does it mean to devote your life to dance? Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s new streaming series, “Étoile,” which debuted April 24 on Prime Video, attempts to answer this question in a way that resonates with both dancers and general audiences. Not an easy task.

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Boy God

Boy God

Like many great roles, Balanchine’s Apollo is a character in constant evolution. Every male dancer who steps into it brings, or at least attempts to bring, something of himself.

Performance

New York City Ballet: “Apollo” / “Ballo della Regina” / “Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux” / “Chaconne”’

Place

David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, April 2025

Words

Marina Harss

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 Glimpsing Nureyev
REVIEWS | Alice Courtright

 Glimpsing Nureyev

Nureyev and Friends, a recent tribute event at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, opened with an introduction from Charles Jude, the longtime protégé of Rudolf Nureyev at the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Counting on It
INTERVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

Counting on It

Listening to John Cage’s “Three Dances (for prepared piano)” is a wonderfully contradictory experience. The composer disrupts our auditory expectations by placing an assortment of small objects such as erasers, screws, and bolts, among the piano strings. A musician plays the piano in the typical manner, but instead of a harmonic tone, we hear more percussive sounds of kettle drums, timpani, xylophone, tin cans, even bells. One can imagine how an artist like Lucinda Childs, who was part of the Judson Dance Theater radicals in the ‘60s, might be attracted to such a composition. The choreographer is perhaps best known...

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Balanchine Inside Out
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Balanchine Inside Out

It is always exciting when the New York City Ballet kicks off a season with an all-Balanchine program. However, the Spring Season’s opening quartet of Balanchine ballets—all strong in their own right—didn’t hang together as well as some other combos.

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Youthful Ideals

Youthful Ideals

Artistic Director Miyako Yoshida’s “Giselle” for the National Ballet of Japan excavates emotional freshness within the familiar landscape of the 1841 Romantic classic.

Performance

The National Ballet of Japan: “Giselle”

Place

New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, April 12, 2025

Words

Kris Kosaka

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Forever Changed
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Forever Changed

At a baseline, good art should move you. At its peak, it can change you. I did not expect to come out of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s season closer, Re-Act, a changed person, but that’s exactly the effect the performance—and particularly one work, Daniel Charon’s “From Code to Universe”—had on me. 

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What is War
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

What is War

The body as vessel; the body as memory container; the body as truth-teller. All of these corporeal permutations were on view at the UCLA Nimoy Theater last Thursday, when Eiko Otake and Wen Hui performed their haunting, elegiac and deeply meaningful work, “What is War.”

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Light on their Feet
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Light on their Feet

 It was sensory overload at the Marciano Art Foundation last weekend when six members of LA Dance Project performed side-by-side, around, and, at times, seemingly in tandem, with Doug Aitken’s film, Lightscape.

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Tidal Movements

Tidal Movements

Three dancers drip down a wall like paint. Their backs press against the background as they slowly bend their knees, oozing down a blank canvas. This is a scene from...

Performance

John Jasperse: “Tides”

Place

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY, April 12, 2025

Words

Cecilia Whalen

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Evolving Dynamism
REVIEWS | Sara Veale

Evolving Dynamism

English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill presents a trio of works from William Forsythe, a dancemaker known for slanting ballet into new gradients, some playful, some confrontational, all of them spirited and agile.

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Motivation for Moving
INTERVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Motivation for Moving

Petite in stature, with beautiful, delicate features, Scottish dance artist Suzi Cunningham is nonetheless a powerhouse performer: an endless shape shifter whose work ranges from eerie to strange, to poignant, or just absolutely hilarious.

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Aim True

Aim True

With his peerless vocabulary of postmodern abstract moves—or, as he’s called it, “gumbo style,” which blends Black dance with classical ballet techniques—Kyle Abraham, a 2013 MacArthur Genius grant awardee, has...

Performance

A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham: Rena Butler’s “Shell of A Shell of The Shell” / Paul Singh’s “Just Your Two Wrists” / Andrea Miller’s “Year”

Place

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,Beverly Hills, California, April 11-12, 2025

Words

Victoria Looseleaf

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